Migration has been typically accompanied by persistently large gender gaps in labor force participation (LFP) rates within the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) countries from 1990 to 2020.

An IMF Statistics Department mission visited Hanoi from March 3-7, 2025, to provide training and technical assistance to Vietnamese authorities on improving government finance and public sector debt ...

Pacific's medium-term growth prospects using two approaches. First, growth accounting analysis and machine-learning estimation reveal how demographics, capital deepening, productivity, and human ...

The key function of banks in the real world is endogenously creating (inside) money. But they do so facing solvency, liquidity and maturity risks and being subject to regulatory and demand constraints ...

This paper examines the efficiency of the Value Added Tax (VAT), focusing on its role as a revenue-raising tool and its use to achieve non-revenue objectives. The analysis highlights the VAT's ...

This paper proposes a “quasi-agnostic” sign restriction procedure to identify structural shocks in frequentist structural vector autoregression (SVAR) models. It argues that low acceptance rates, ...

The Canadian economy has navigated the pandemic well and achieved a soft landing but rising trade tensions pose significant challenges. Amid sharp monetary tightening to control high levels of ...

This paper assesses the stance of monetary policy in eleven Sub-Saharan African (SSA) emerging and frontier market economies. We estimate neutral real interest rates using a range of methodologies, ...

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